The Enchanted Eye “It is time to abandon the world of the civilized and its light.” – Georges...
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The Enchanted Eye “It is time to abandon the world of the civilized and its light.” – Georges Bataille “I have discarded clarity as worthless. Working in darkness., I have discovered lightning.” – André Breton
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The Enchanted Eye“It is time to abandon the world of the civilized and its light.”
– Georges Bataille
“I have discarded clarity as worthless. Working in darkness., I have discovered lightning.”– André Breton
Eye spot on a Chaetodon fish of the coral reefs.
Peral;
Pearl Spotted Owl seen from behind.
Head and wings of Laternaria, alligator bug.
Wodaabe youth in the throes of courtship.
Creator: Jan Provoost (c. 1465-1529)Title: Sacred AllegoryWork Type: paintingDate: c. 1500Material: oil on woodMeasurements: 50.5 x 40 cmRepository: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
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Creator: Giovanni Bellini (c.1433-1516)Title: Christ BlessingWork Type: paintingDate: c. 1460Measurements: 58 x 44 cmRepository: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Jean-Jacques or J. J. GrandvilleUn Autre Monde
Creator: Odilon Redon, French, 1840-1916Title: The Black SunWork Type: PaintingDate: c. 1900Material: Oil with incising on boardMeasurements: 12 3/4 x 9 3/8" (32.4 x 23.8 cm)
Creator: Redon, Odilon, FrenchTitle: The CyclopsDate: 1898Location: Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, The NetherlandsMaterial: o/cMeasurements: 25x20"
Creator: Redon, Odilon, 1840-1916Title: Dans le Reve: Vision plate 8Work Type: lithographDate: 1879Measurements: 27.6 x 19.9 cmDescription: Plate eight, lithograph series
TearsMan Ray American, Paris, 1930 - 1932 Gelatin silver print 9 x 11 3/4 in.
Creator: René Magritte, Belgian, 1898-1967Title: The PortraitWork Type: PaintingDate: Brussels 1935Material: Oil on canvasMeasurements: 28 7/8 x 19 7/8" (73.3 x 50.2 cm)Repository: The Museum of Modern Art
Creator: René MagritteCreator: Belgian; 1898-1967Title: The EyeDate: c. 1932/35Material: Oil on canvasMeasurements: 9 5/16 x 9 5/16 in. (24.4 x 24.4 cm)
Von Dutch’s Flying Eyeball as tattoo art.
Johnny Rotten’s stare
HAL 9000 was an AI computer in Arthur C. Clarke’s Space Odyssey series. HAL’s main frame is never represented, only the
glowing red eye lense.
The all seeing eye
